Apologies to Dr. Seuss but “it started in low. Then it started to grow.” Mogwai live at Vancouver’s Commodore Ballroom on November 25th began benignly then grew into a Cerberus of layered guitars, chugging drums and thrumming bass. But Stuart Braithwaite, Dominic Aitchison and Barry Burns took to the stage …

Fall foliage and great gigs. Here’s a round up of the best shows of September and October, starirng Public Service Broadcasting in Seattle, and Billy Bragg, Steve Earle, Depeche Mode, INVSN and the Afghan Whigs.

A tired but “silly” and always-awesome Samuel T Herring lead his band of stonefaced men through a rowsing and crowd-pleasing gig at one two Vancouver shows at the Vogue Theatre, on September 24th. Check out the words and the photos to follow.

Occasionally, you need to cleanse your palate of toxic sludge. You need to shake off body aches and pains, politics and despair. You need to slide, like a jelly octopus, off your sofa, and leave everything behind. You need to go down the street to your local Commodore Ballroom, and …

15 years since his last solo album, Jason Loewenstein of Sebadoh is on the cusp of releasing his second LP, Spooky Action. Here he talks about what he’s been doing all these years, and what he’s observed about himself and life.